Body drag



May 13, 1930. T. .1. DILWORTH BODY DRAG Filed Aug. 20, 1928 -IN V EN TOR.

Patented May 13, 1930 1,758,149

UNITEB STS FFEE TIMOTHY J. DILWORTH, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS BODY DRAG Application filed August 20, 1928. Serial No. 300,861.

My invention is a device for the recovery single hooks are joined back to back by of bodies lost by drowning in harbors, bays, solder, 7. lakes or rivers. It is in this way that the entire drag is made The devices now in use for this purpose reversible; bolting the hooks to the angle iron are haphazard arrangements which very makes it easy at any time to replace with often slip entirely over the body sought to be new hooks any which may become-damaged. recovered without catching in any part of it; Having thus described my invention, I they are also rendered ineffectual by the claim: presence of eel-grass and other bottom 1. A body drag consisting of a triangular 0 growths which generally cause the devices frame with a number of double pointed hooks to become tangled up in themselves. alternately long and short, evenly spaced It is accordingly the purpose of my invenacross the frame of the drag and attached to tion to recover the body sought by the use of the frame by means of stove bolts.

a frame from which project a number of 2. A body drag consisting of a triangular hooks which are rigidly affixed to the frame in frame made from two pieces of round iron such a way as to make fouling impossible. joined by a piece of angle iron with an eye This frame is lowered to the bottom by at the point where the two pieces of round means of a rope. By dragging the frame iron meet; attached to the angle iron, extendalong the bottom at an angl of 45 degre ing downward therefrom, nine double-pointth bends f th h k id along th b tt ed, barbed metal hooks spaced five inches thus leaving the points free to become firmly apart, said hooks being alternately five inches imbedded in the clothing of the body. d O ches long.

In my invention the arrangement of the 3- A body drag as above claimed having hook and th th d b hi h th are n two single, barbed hooks joined back to back tached to the frame make the entire drag by soldering; nine so constructed doublereversible, so that care need not be exercised D i I cd hooks Spaced five inches apart coverthat the drag is low red t th b tt ith ing the width of the frame or, in other words, the proper side down, the length of the angle iron.

VViththe above objects in view the inven 4. A body drag consisting of a triangular tion resides in certain details of construction frame made f tWO p s of found iron 89 as will hereinafter be more fully described joined by a Piece Of angle having an y and claimed, for the insertion of a drag rope Where the ends I th d i Fi 1 i a f t l ti of the round iron meet; attached to the angle f my i ti iron by means of bolts nine double-pointed F 2 is a Side elevation Showing h barbed metal hooks alternately two inches method of attaching the hooks to the frame. and five lllches long- MyI invention conlsists of tifvo pieces 0; i e gi g i gggeg'iggifjfi I have slgned y rounc iron 33, in t e shape 0 an inverte 5 40 letter V with an eye 4 in each piece of round TIMOTHY DILVORTH' iron at the apex of the V for the insertion of a drag rope. The outer ends of the round iron are screwed into a piece of angle iron, 2, and secured by nuts, 5-5; to this piece of angle iron, 2, are aflixed by stove bolts, 6, 95 alternately two-inch and five-inch doublepointed, barbed hooks, 111, which are spaced five inches apart; nine hooks taking up the width of the frame. In order to make the hooks double-pointed, in each case, two we 

